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For the last couple of years I've been "laboring" along with a 20 year old Onkyo reciever. I put that in parens because my TX-SV90Pro was top of the line when it was built ($1200 in 1990!)and is the best receiver I have ever had. However....after buying an Oppo player it really started to seem like the only thing it did was produce two channel sound. Great sound...but only two channels.
Then, last night a beautiful condition Cambridge 340R came on E-flay and I hopped and got it for $157. It really is everything I wanted. Simple with good sound being paramount. It has 5.1 ins, 5 discreet amps, toroidal transformer, HDMI ins and outs, digital sound processing for my Squeezebox...but it only has 50 watts/channel compared to my Onk's 100, but what the hell, I have a really small living room.
I'm not trading in the Onk, but it will go onto the shelf until I get this sorted and decide if the 340R is right. Then it will go into storage for my daughter.
Anything I should look out for on this unit?
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a little anemic, but if the room is small you might be ok. Try setting the front left and right speakers to small or adjust the cutoff frequency to them to maybe 70 hz and up. This allows your sub-woofer to do the heavy lifting which may lighten the load on the 340.
Baba-Booey to you all!
That begs another question. This is the first receiver that I've done anything other than split the signal to the fronts to run the sub. I've always let the crossover on the sub determine the Hz. Do I set the sub's crossover to its highest setting and use the receiver to set the crossover? 70 hz is about where I have it set now as my Dana 630s roll off pretty steeply around that point.
Edits: 09/28/10
Yes. You either bypass the sub's crossover (if you can) or you set it to the highest frequency possible and let the AVR control the bass management for all the speakers.
Kal
There should be a line level input on the sub using a mono input from your AVR. That's the preferred method, then use the crossover adjustment on the AVR for the five speakers.
Baba-Booey to you all!
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